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Drama

Curriculum Intent

The Drama Curriculum at Grace Academy Coventry is a knowledge-based curriculum, which provides students with the powerful knowledge needed to create, perform and respond to Drama.

We use Drama as a tool for students to understand the world in which they live, as such we have based our curriculum around four central themes:

  • childhood/loss of innocence
  • conflict
  • identity
  • social inequality.

Our spiral curriculum seeks to enable every student to: experience aspects of theatre-making other than performing, devise original pieces of theatre and analyse and perform scripts.

This term, we are studying:

Year

Topic(s)

Why this? Why now?

Year 7

‘Macbeth’

KS3 Drama is a spiral curriculum, building skills in 3 areas, creating, performing and responding. This term, Year 7 students are studying ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare. They will be focusing on performing an extract and learning how to become a character. 

Year 8

Musical Theatre: ‘Bugsy Malone’

KS3 Drama is a spiral curriculum, building skills in 3 areas, creating, performing and responding. This term Year 8 are looking at the genre of Musical Theatre, particularly focusing on ‘Bugsy Malone’. They will be developing their skills in performing, building on the skills they developed in year 7 Term 2, this time, using an extract and a song from the musical.

Year 9

Devising: Social Media

KS3 Drama is a spiral curriculum, building skills in 3 areas, creating, performing and responding. This term, Year 9 are applying the techniques of Bertolt Brecht to create a performance from a stimuli that represents social media. This will build on the skills that they used in term 3 of Year 8, but this time working more independently and creatively. 

Year 10

Devising: OCR GCSE Drama component 1/2

This term year 10 Drama students will be working towards their NEA in GCSE Drama which counts towards 30% of their final Grade. This will involve them exploring a stimulus to create a performance and provide a supporting portfolio which documents the process they have gone through. This unit is worth 30% of the final GCSE. 

Year 11

OCR GCSE: Component 3, Presenting and Performing Texts.  

Year 11 are working in small groups performing 2 extracts of a given play. The class are exploring the plays; ‘Things I know to Be True’, ‘The Unreturning’ and ‘DNA’. In addition, they will complete a concept pro forma, consisting of 4 questions that show the students understanding of the play and their character. These will be performed in April to an  external examiner, with the ‘Concept Pro Forma’ being sent off a week prior to the performance. This component is 30% of their GCSE.


Qualification information:

https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse/drama-j316-from-2016/

Curriculum content:

Attached are the curriculum maps which outline the sequence we use in order to structure our learning. If you would like to support your child's learning, we have attached links to Oak National Academy who provide lessons, activities and resources for commonly taught topics. Please use the curriculum map for this subject before visiting:

https://teachers.thenational.academy/subjects/drama/key-stages/key-stage-3

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